• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-16-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Google, Facebook and peers criticize CISA bill ahead of Senate consideration

A trade group representing Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other tech and communications companies has come down heavily against the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, a controversial bill in the U.S. that is intended to encourage businesses to share information […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-15-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Death to passwords! New Yahoo Mail protects with push notifications instead

Yahoo began its assault on the password in March with SMS-based two-factor authentication, and now the company wants to finish what it started. On Thursday, Yahoo announced Yahoo Account Key, a password-less method of logging in to Yahoo Mail that […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-15-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Death to passwords! New Yahoo Mail protects with push notifications instead

Yahoo began its assault on the password in March with SMS-based two-factor authentication, and now the company wants to finish what it started. On Thursday, Yahoo announced Yahoo Account Key, a password-less method of logging in to Yahoo Mail that […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-15-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Is Apple’s OS X security honeymoon ending?

Apple scored unforgettable hits against Microsoft with its Mac vs. PC ads, which anthropomorphized Windows as a sneezing, miserable office worker.  Security experts always knew that the campaign was a clever bit of marketing fluff, one that allowed Apple to […]